Day: July 6, 2016

Top Links

• ReSharper Ultimate 2016.2 EAP: Builds 5 and 6 (Dmitry Matveev)
• Getting to Slack faster with incremental boot (Slack Engineering Team)
• .NET Rocks! – Software Testing for Failed Projects with Todd Gardner (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

 

Web Development

• Crossing the Site Domain with JavaScript (Dino Esposito)
• Leverage WordPress Functions to Reduce HTML in your Posts (Alessandro Vendruscolo)

 

XAML

• FamilyNotes: (Spoken) words and pictures (Karl Bridge)
• Windows 10, UWP and Experimenting with Inking onto a Map Control (Mike Taulty)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• What is the Extension Method in C#? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Discovering Modern C++ (Mike James)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• You Suck at TDD #8 – Doing fewer things (Eric Gunnerson)
• The Flying Trapeze (Adam Asch)
• You’re doing it wrong: Definition of Done (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Microservices vs. SOA (Ima Miri)
• Reflecting on a Work Anniversary (Johanna Rothman)
• Quick Fixes for Protected/Restricted Branches – Part of the Cycligent Git Tool Series (Zach Stetka)
• Product Integration Testing at the Speed of Netflix (Rashmi Prasad)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Add custom tiles to map in Xamarin Forms (Daniel Hindrikes)
• Xamarin C# Binding of a Cocoapods iOS SDK (Vidyasagar Machupalli)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Internet of Things – $44.98 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Angular Calendar and Chart in UI for NativeScript 1.2.0 (Nikolay Diyanov)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Stitcher and Talk Python Podcast: A Farewell Letter (Michael Kennedy)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 51: A PowerShell Story (Carlos Chacon Jr.)
• SSW TV – C# 6.0 Features You Should Be Using Now | Dev SuperPowers Episode 22 with Eric Phan (Sophie Belle)
• Episode 137 | Windows Containers are coming! Talking to Taylor Brown about the container wave coming to the Microsoft world (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Functional Geekery Episode 58 – Elise Huard (Steven Proctor)
• RunAs Radio – Isolated User Mode in Windows 10 with Mark Minasi (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Tuesdays with Corey: Azure Functions demo | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• Falafel Bytes Show is Released (Lino Tadros)

 

Community / Events

• The Philadelphia Geek Awards Will Return this Fall (Michaelangelo Ilagan)
• Philly Nerd Nite No. 62: Gene Therapy! Comics! Max Headroom! (Nerd Nite Team)
• 25 Years of Learning and Laughter (Bill Gates)

Database

• Understanding how SQL Server stores data in data files (Manvendra Singh)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Surface rumor roundup: What’s on tap for this Fall (and beyond) and Microsoft adds IM, contacts to Skype for Business for Mac preview and Microsoft confirms App-V will be bundled with with Windows 10 Anniversary Update (Mary Jo Foley)
• Rudy Huyn wants Windows 10 Insider program to drop the Feedback Hub, switch to UserVoice (Kip Kniskern)
• Introducing free Skype Meetings (Andrew Sinclair)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading July 5, 2016 #1141 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #2129 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-07-06 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-07-06 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for July 5th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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